By ANDREW DALTON | Related Press
LOS ANGELES — A 30-year-old man pleaded responsible Thursday to the homicide of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the spouse of legendary music govt Clarence Avant.
Aariel Maynor pleaded responsible within the deadly capturing of Avant and the tried homicide of her safety guard at her Beverly Hills house in December, Los Angeles County prosecutors stated.
Maynor additionally pleaded responsible to possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts of housebreaking.
He's scheduled to be sentenced on March 30 and might be sentenced to as much as 170 years in jail, prosecutors stated.
“This crime continues to shock the conscience,” District Lawyer George Gascón stated in an announcement. “Mrs. Avant’s loss of life was a tragic loss felt by our total group.”
Gascón stated Maynor can be ineligible for aged parole.
Police have been known as to the Avants’ house early on the morning of Dec. 1 and located Jacqueline Avant, 81, with a gunshot wound. She was taken to the hospital however didn't survive.
He additionally fired on a safety guard, authorities stated. Neither the guard nor Clarence Avant was damage.
An hour later, Los Angeles law enforcement officials arrested Maynor, a parolee who had shot himself within the foot at a house within the Hollywood Hills about 7 miles away. He was arrested for housebreaking, and hours later was tied to the Avant capturing.
Authorities have stated he was burglarizing each houses, they usually don’t imagine he was concentrating on the Avants.
Jacqueline Avant was a longtime native philanthropist who led organizations that helped low-income neighborhoods together with Watts and South Los Angeles, and was on the board of administrators of the Worldwide Pupil Middle on the College of California, Los Angeles.
Grammy-winning govt Clarence Avant is named the “Godfather of Black Music” and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame final 12 months. The 91-year-old was additionally a live performance promoter and supervisor who mentored and helped the careers of artists together with Invoice Withers, Little Willie John, L.A. Reid, Babyface, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
The Avants have been married for 54 years and had two youngsters, Alexander Du Bois Avant and Nicole Avant, a movie producer and former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas who's married to Netflix co-CEO and Chief Content material Officer Ted Sarandos.
Jacqueline Avant’s charitable work and private connections made her a broadly beloved determine. After her loss of life, tributes to her got here from former President Invoice Clinton, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Quincy Jones, who stated “The heaviness of my coronary heart at the moment is not like every other that I've ever skilled.”